Makeup

I'd thought today was the photo day at the dance studio.   So, I took makeup along.   But, it was really the day she got her dance costume.   So, I had the makeup.  Tatiana wanted to try and put it on herself.  I said she had to wait until we got home when she could do it in front of the mirror.  She put her PJ dress on, and then she did a great job.  I am especially impressed with her lipstick job.   Better than when I do it on her.  Although she twitches her lips when I do it.

Tuesday

I had a work dinner so I got home late.  We went as a family to check on the chickees.  Part of the reason might have been so that Scotland could show off the fence he'd mostly finished.  I think it is done, but he thinks he needs to do something in the corner.  They told me earlier in the day Tatiana took out 7 chickees and cuddled them in the yard.  They loved it.  JJ was there too.   The nice thing is that the last three chickens walked into the henhouse to be with their friends when it came time to put them up.  She said cuddling the ckickees was the best part of her day.

How to Lift a Lion book

I had a nose bleed on the way home from work yesterday and at bedtime I started to have a little problem with it again.   I'd been reading a book that Tatiana really likes, "How to Lift a Lion".    It is a kid's physics book on simple machines.  I was halfway through when I had to sit up.  She said, "That is OK mommy.   I will read the rest to you.   And she did.

I see London, I see France

Last night was Tatiana's AHG meeting.  The leader had a really nice carefully prepared plan for stuff for the kids to do that was both fun and informative.  The badge was on taking care of yourself, hygiene, going to the doctor, etc.   At the end of the meeting, the kids colored paper-doll doctors and then colored a lab coat outfit and one of those head-lamp things they were.   Then both were attached with tabs as paper-doll clothes are.  It was hard to cut out the outfit, so many of the dolls didn't have clothes for a bit.   Riley asked what Kristen's doctor was wearing and said it looked like she was wearing underwear.  Riley was going on a bit about the underwear thing.  So, I sang, "I see London, I see France.  I see Kristen's doctor's underpants."    The girls thought that was the funniest thing they ever heard.   It was obvious that none of the girls had ever heard it before, and were filing it away for later use.  The mothers weren't annoyed precisely, they were more thinking, "Oh, great! Now I have to listen to this a million times."   I said, "Mommies, you are welcome." as a way of saying Oops.   That song was song a great many times for the rest of the meeting.   When I told Scotland he commented that probably none of the kids at the local elementary school had heard it since two of the girls at the meeting go to public school.   So, soon all of Farmersville will have me to thank for the proliferation of that song.  After the meeting, Kristen came over to play and her mommy said that the song is likely what they will remember from the meeting, not the carefully crafted activities.